Online gambling laws in France
The French people is a truly unique people. They beheaded their King and a few years later coronated an Emperor. Cheese, wine and social privileges are more important to them than sweating at work. So it is not really surprising that they have just enacted new online gambling laws that are stupid and unfair, is it?
Stupid is a strong word. Yes it is, indeed. Look at what is happening with online poker in France. Because of this new law, licensed online poker operators in France can only allow French players to play their games. And French players can only play at these sites. So instead of what used to be an international game where players from all countries in the world (almost all) could sit and battle in card games, we now have websites only for the French players. French online poker players will only play against other Gaulois.
This creates a segmented market, the world without France and France. There is no benefit to that, on the contrary. As this only French traffic will be small in comparison to a global traffic (at any poker room), this will make the games less active and the players weaker. This is a move reminiscent of their latest World Cup prowess, making sure to take the actions to become less competitive.
Also this law is unfair because the friends of the establishment are the first to get these licenses even though some of them have nearly no experience in online poker.
If you want to play online casino games like video poker, this should not be as much of a concern as you play versus the house so it does not really matter what the other players are doing. Consult specialized gambling websites like onlinevideopoker.com to find out more about video poker for example.
But for online poker this new law is certain to make French online poker players worse than the rest of the world as they will be used to play in their small enclosure. The good news is the French do not really care, they have much bigger issues such as cleaning up their budget and managing the regular strikes there.
At least online poker is allowed in France, unlike Turkey. Freedom has prevailed.
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